The Sun. — London, England, 1818-09-09 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. (From The (Dublin) Corresmndent.) As the period for the Meeting of Congress ap- Prosehr, rumour t.okes some liberties in specify ing several of the subjects likely to be taken into th e consideration of that body. Among others specially noticed in this way, are, the Insurgent war in South America, and the state of ations be tween the Portuguese and Spanish Authorities in the cbstrict of La Plata. Will) respect to the for ; mcr, it is sepposed that the Allied Powers will act upon the Note of the King of Spain, claiming their •interference, and endeavour to re-estahlidi tranquillity and the dominion of his Majesty, at the saute time, in the revolted settlements ; and some of those who deliver these opinions noon the matter, contend for the right of the Allies to use force in the adjustment, should conciliatory , measures fail. Though we should he glad to see mediation successful in restoring peace to those countries, and the supremacy of the Spanish Mo-. tnu - ch established upon a 1110te enlightened system of Gov erns Milt than that NV Ilk it formerly directed the ,concerns of South America, yet we cannot subscribe to the principle that foreign States may interpose to compel the submission of the Colo 1-lists. It is a case in which no foreign Govern . went can have a right to take an active part,•be , yond what remonstrance or• persuasion may he aide to produce. The contest between Spain and her Colonies is of the nature of a domestid dif ference, to be settled by the parties at issue, and without the intervention of a third party, except . both sides should claim it,_. However anxious other, , States may be to supportdawful rule against revolutionary commotion„Llogsdoctrine of inter , ferenceeannot be carried with justice to the ,ap ion of force. Countries have a right,• to settle their internal dissensions of themselves, without any extraneous interposition, save what may be of a friendly nature. We 'do not think,. -from - the view‘ve entertain of the subject, that . •the -Allies will' assist the' Spanish Government; , With arty thing more •than good counsel to -wards teteninating the war lfl the South 'Anted 'ran Colonies. As to t h e adjustment spriken bi - ' between Spain ninth Portugal, that is a thinVot less diffienlty. The latter has made an inroad into the teriitories of the former, without any just Cause for so doing, and should be constrained, it necessary, to relin quish au acquisition so obtained. The case has . no difficulty in it, and the mediation of Austria, 'which has been alluded to as being called upon, is quite sufficient to dispose of it, except the Portuguese Government is resolved to preserve its conquest. (From The Durham. eminty ..-blerrtiver, Sept. 4.) Sir Wm. Curtis, with a party of friends, arrived at Shields on Wednesday last, in the worthy Ba ronet's yacht. They were in Newcastle yester day, on thvir way to Gosforth House, where, it understood, they are engaged to spend a few Oat's with Mr. Brandling. A small and unusual spot is now visible on the lower had) of the sun's disk. - Last week Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, the philan thropist, artised here from London, and, accom panii.td by her friends and ( w e or two geutletnen of this neilibourhood, Mspected our old and new county prisons. She examined the different cells, day rooms, &c. and expressed much satisfaction ttt the prospect of the superior comfort which the new gaol ~ rsts likely to afford to the prisoners.— She strongly reconunended the formation of com mittees of both sexes, (or the purpose of fre quently visiting the prison, to see that the salu tary rides and directions of the Magistrates were fully carried into effect. • Partridge shooting commenced on Tuesday last, but from the inauspicious state of the sreather, little execution was done upon that day. Some catty rising sportsmen, indeed, contrived to bag a few - brace before the rain began but if they hit the partridges, they were most severely pelted in their torts by an uncommonly heavy shower, which descended in torrents about six o'clock, and obliged them to quit the field. The rain con tinued, " better and worse," tilt about 2 o'..lock in the afternoon,when Sol cheered with his beams the almost expiring hopes of the sportsmen, who now rallied and took the field in superior force. — They had not, however, been long in pursuit of the feathered tribe, till another and a heavier shower caused a second retreat, and they returned to their homes in a condition which beggars de scription. The weather since has been more fa vourable, and many a bird has fallen beneath the charge of the murderous gun. Partridges are plentiful, and at this early season unusually strong upon the wing. MADRID. The followinv, is an extract of a letter from Madrid, dated August 24 " I can assure you that great efforts are mak ing to strengthen our connexion with England, whose alliance is every day felt to be more and move important. The invasion of Florida will greatly facilitate this object. The credit of the Russian Minister, M. de 'Tatistcheff, has consi derably declined. There have been very recently a Council of State and Ministerial Consultations, at which the King presided in person, and the re qfilt of which was not, as heretofore, communi• csted to the Russian Minister, who now very rarely has an audience of M. de Pizarro. He W I,t; pv,esented himself at the King's residence lie last eight days, without being received, and it was only by means of the Camerilla that LAtimatelv obtained an interview. At the last 'onlomatic audience, every person remarked that the King,, cro to his ordinary practice, paid bo . (a ve:y slight attention to him. In fact, every ob's'crvation- tt.iat can be made upon the subject, Icadm to the conclusion that the influence of Rm. has lost its power over the Cabinet of Madrid. With notch •difficulty, a certain number of ships lyr%e been cot together, to transport some thou s Anus of lueu, but it will be necessary to have ships o f 'lie line to protect them from the Insur r,or p`rirateers. The Russian fleet was at first for, this service, but they are in a vs re(eneri a.ate, which caused the King to ub serve, that he consitlefed his acquisition of the Russian vessels like buying an apparent decßti , suit of cast-off clothes in a salesman's shop ; when he would put them on, he finds them all moth eaten. " Nothing is published here relating to Peru, the atfAir of Mali)°, or General Morillo. All the news front the Spanish Colonies is confined to some old reports addressed to the Viceroy of ,Mexico. The Decree respecting the consolidation of the Nntional Debt, appeated only the day be fore yesterday.' It is calculated to attain partially its object, it it be faithfully executed. The prin cipal resort cc is the Clergy, from whom are ex acted four years of the revenues of vacant Pre bends ; but by an incomprehensible arrangement, the revenues of the Bishops and Archbishops es cape this demand. We shall ste whether this new plan of finance will have more success than all those which have preceded it." CORONERS' INQUESTS. We have already noticed the untimely death of CHARLES GRANT, Esq. by a spring gun, which had been placed in his garden, in Grove-road, Mile-end, by his own directions. This melan choly event occasioned an inquest to be taken be fore JOHN WatonT UswiN, Esq. yesterday at when the following evidence was ad duced : . It appeared that on Sunday week, between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, the deceased was alarmed by the violent barking of a New foundland dog, which induced him to go. into the garden, suspeeting th it some persons were in the !act of robbery, as various 4 ;depredations had before been committed there. In order to w a lk w i t h t h e greatest silence, he quitted the gravel walk and proceeded close to the garden-wall, where most unhappily, through forgetfulness, he trod on the wire of a spring-gun, which instantly went off, and lodged several bullets in his thigh ; feeling himself wounded, though then unconscious of pain, he called out " Help, help ;" his man-ser vant immediately came to his assistance, and with his support he reached the parlour. Mr. Grant laid himself upon a sofa, and directed that Mr. Hark ness, his surgeon, should be sent for. John Harkness, Esq. sworn.—" On receiving the melancholy intelligence, I attended with all possible expedition. On viewing the wound, 1 thought it expedient to send for Sir Wm. Blizard. Before Sir William came, I inspected the wound, which was on the exterior part of the right thigh, immediately under the hip ; two of the bullets were perceptible on the inside of the thigh, im mediately under the surface. Within an hour Sir Wrn. Wizard arrived. On examining the wound, we immediately proceeded to extract the two balls which lay under the surface of the interior part of the thigh. On passing a director down, we discovered another wound still deeper, from which also another .bullet was extracted. On further examination, we found a fourth bullet yet deeper, which. w t its also extracted, " The medi cal Gentlemen then left the deceased tranquil and free from fever., The appearances seemed. to have been favourable at first, but on :stind;ty it was discovered that mortification had taken place, and between twelve and oneo'clock on Monday morn ing the deceased breathed his last. "[he Coroner here observed, that the mode of defending property by spring-guns had been con sidered by persons eminent in the law as highly exceptionable and illegal. In time present in stance, however, any observations of this nature were rendered the less necessary, as die deceased had fallen the victim of his own unhappy precau tion, and had been the only sufferer on the occa sion. it was (pile inipOSsible to view the trans action in any other light than that of an accident. The Jury immediately found a verdict of " Acci dental Death." The deceased was an eminent broker, and one of the first linguists of the day. An Inquisition was taken yesterday at St.Tho mas's on the body of Mr. J. Dowden, of Lo.Afisham. It appeared from the evidence of several labourers who work in the gravel pits at Southend, near Lewisham, that on Wednesday last they had prepared to fall a mass of gravel by the usual method of undermining it, awl they and the deceased were about to go to the top for the purpose of forcing it down with iron crows. They were getting some water to carry up with them, and the deceased was standing with his back to wards the fall a few yards from it, ‘k.lien, with out any previous warning by the falling of stones, or by the cracking of the gravel, it fell down up on the deceased, and entirely covered him. They dug him out as quick as possible, and there being signs of remaining life, they conveyed him with all speed to the hospital ; he appeared to be dead when he arrived. The injury on the lower extre mities of the deceased was of the most severe de scription. Verdict —" Accidentally killed by a mass of gravel falling upon him." Yesterday an Inquest was held on the body of Joseph Adams, the child of Mr. Adams, of Shoe lane.--Mts. Colley, of lirewhouse-yard, Shoe lane, deposed, that on Monday morning, about ten minutes before nine o'clock, she was standing at her door, and saw a waggon belonging to Messrs. Sheer and Sons, copper-smiths, Fleet street, coining down lirewhouse-yard ; the horses had passed throngh the archway leading down the yard, when she saw the deceased peeping at the entrance at the horses ; the hind wheel of the waggon struck against his head, and he fell down between the fore and the hind wheel on the near side ; the hind wheel went over his head aml shat tered the skull to pieces. No blame was attach ed to the driver. Verdict—" Accidenril Death." As Henry Brailler, Esq.ot Islington, was going across the fields near that place, about half-past eleven on Monday night, he was attacked by two footpads, who knocked hire down with a blud geon, and robbed hint of 51. 13s. and his watch. On Monday night, as Mt. J. Budge, of Dart mouth, was passing by St. George's Church, Bo rough, he was accosted by a female, who invited hint to go home with her ; and on his refusing to do so, he WaG immediately attacked by three wen, who robbed him of his watch. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. AN ODD SCENE.—The LORD MAYOR, in the course of his business, was interrupted by a sailor, a showman, and a inonkey, who arrived at the Justice-room, with a great multitude behind them. The monkey was making, a most hideous noise, and the sailor and showman, who hail been arguing on their way to the Mansion House, were so completely absorbed in the subject of dispute, as not to take notice, for sonic time, of the autho rity presiding. The monkey, however, was more respectful in his manners, and seemed to have a due impression of the dignity of the Magistrate before whom he was brought. His Lordship having noticed the respectful de meanour of the monkey, called upon the sailor and showman to follow the example of the animal, who at that moment began to exhibit some of his most amusing tricks—such as pulling the show man's nose, untying his cravat, dragging open his waistcoat, &c. The LORD MAYOR desired that if there was any complaint to be made it should be proceeded upon. The sailor said he and the monkey were the injured party; the showman was the ag gressor. His Lordship seemed to think that the monkey would he as well able to explain the matter as either of his companions, and this conclusion ap peared to be just, for while the features of the men were agitated with passion, the monkey's was as grave as those of a philosopher. The monkey kept his eye fixed upon the Lord Mayor, and at the conclusion of every sentence from his Lordship, uttered a piercing cry. The sailor at length made his complaint. He stated that he went into Gilman and Atkins' ex hibition of wild beasts in Bartholomew Fair, and while he was looking - at the curiosities, he recog nised the monkey, which was now before his Lordship, to be his own property. He had pur chased it for four or five dollars at St. Kitt's, some months ago, and upon his arrival in this country, he had lost it at Portsmouth. Upon en tering the show he immediately told the keeper that it was his monkey, and have it he would.— The keeper refused to give it up, and declared that his master had bought it fairly for one pound. The showman here got into a high passion with the monkey, who had seized him with such vio lence by the nose as to make him roar out. The animal growing more and more averse to the con troul of the keeper, held his paws out to the sailor, and moaned piteously. The LORD MAYOR said, the only way for him to decide upon a case, in which there was positive assertions on both sides, was to leave the matter to the monkey himself. His Lordship limo di rected that the monkey should be placed upon the table, and that each patty claiming him should use his powers of fascination, in order to ascer tain to whom the monkey was most attached. The monkey was put upon the table, but nar rowly escaped death, from an attack made upon him by a dog, a constant visitor at the Mansion House. Having escaped this danger, the Lord Mayor marked the acct . of so important an ad venture, and seeing that the monkey fled to the arms of the sailor (who skewed most concern) for protection, and that the animal throughout had evinced towards bins the 'greatest . attachment, he thought he was the rightful owner. The desired experiment, however, was now made, and the showman 'pot a pkce of stick into the monkey's paw, and desired him to shoulder arms. Instead of obeying this order, the monkey struck the keeper WI the head, and then threw it in his face. The sailor next called upon the animal, saying, " Jack, look sharp, and make a salanz to his Lord ship.'' The monkey instantly stood erect on his Lind lees, raised his paws to the top of his head, and made a low bow to the Lord Mayor in the Turkish style. He then hugged and fawned upon the sailor as before. " if any thing else is necessary," said the " to prove him mine, l can spew it. There is a hole in one of his ears which I bored in St. Kitts, for it is fashionable for the bucks to wear an ear-ring there. His left paw is walked by a lisping-hook, and part of his tail is bitten by a parrot that used to quarrel with bin)." These marks were observed. The LORD MAYoR advised the showman to give up all claim to the monkey, but he refused. The sailor refuse►! to part with th►e mo►►key, and the monkey would not part with him. The disputants at length left the Office, the monkey clinging to the neck of the sailor iu the most affectionate manner. UNION-HALL. ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT AT SUlClDE.—Yester day a young woman of decent appearance was brought to this Office, charged with the following robbery : Mr. William Manning deposed, that be was shoprnan to Mr. Satle, of No. 95, Blackman street, Borough, boot and shoe-maker. That morning he observed the prisoner at the shop of a linen-draper opposite Mr. Salle's, attempting to steal some cotton, but she was not able to suc ceed, owing to the watchfulness of the sbopman. About half an hour • afterwards he observed her come to the shop-door of his employer ; he got behind the desk-shade, and was able to see her without her knowing it. He saw her take a knife out of her pocket, and cut the string which tied a pair of shoes to a number of others which hung at the door ; she wrapped the shoes in her handkerchief and walked away with them; he followed her and secured her with the property, and found a knife in her pocket. The Magistrate wished to know if Mr. Sarle would prosecute the prisoner ? The above witness stated that be bad resolved to do so, in consequence of the frequency of rob beries committed at his shop. On Monday be was robbed of some shoes, and he had reason to believe by the prisoner, because she was seen lurking about the shop. The prisoner said that distress bad caused her to commit the robbery ; she declared it was her first offence ; site begged that site might not be sent to a prison. Being fully committed for trial, she was put into the lock - -op room at the buck of the office, where she attempted to bang herself. She 11 : 3 e ! found by the keeper of the prison in a most r, plorable situation ; she had tied one of her gao ters round her neck very tight. A surgeon %, sent for, who came immediately from the D is r e sary and bled her, and used means to restore I ° l , She soon recovered, and the knife and her 118111(he kerchief and garters were taken from her. °, r declared that she would never live to be t ried° robbery ; and when the keeper locked ber,, li f, again, she tried to hang herself with a h anbe " , chief which she had concealed under her clotlies'r she had tied one end round her neck and the to the bars of the window,.and was going to d'. 19 „,, herself down, when the keeper entered the P ris "re and untied the handkerchief. Her arms vcie,6 pinioned, and she was taken to Horsemoug er-°- Gaol. `I6IIE TWO HIGHLANDERS• (FROM AN AMERICAN PAPER.) t ear; There are now, or at least were, a few .1 - A . ago, living at the village of Three Rivers, C atou 4 two venerable Highlanders, opposite armies at the battle of Culloden , s'; l : l ir terminated the Scotch Rebellion of 1745- 6 . f;a ; e r names are Sinclair and Macdonald. The lat' i d fought under the banners of the Pretender, V(I, on the final defeat of the unfortunate Charles if ward, escaped from Scotland, and oltim ate „i , who fought in settled in Canada. Sinclair fought in the te l e anent called the Frazer Highlanders , a tt l ed to the Royal Forces. This corps forffl e „ ii il part of \Voile's army, which invaded Cana(l3; " et . on the peace of 1763 he left the regiment a nu 9 B o tied at Three Rivers. Both of them were P r ,, lv i - r eA soldiers at home ; but in Canaela they ac c i" d ",,io handsome properties by hard and honest i° ; 1 ,4 try, and their children have intermarried w ith do most wealthy and respectable inhabitants province. They are hospitable to all st rAnge especially to the Scotch, but will not call 0°'0; any other name than North Britons, vs been horn since the Union with Englaw l, %- they deplore as the extinction of their nall° ° ' ee t They also live on the best terms, and neve:. to without a hearty shake of the hand, but d ail l j Je each other, the one on the signal defeat Of ; rebels" at Culloden, and the other on his file .; to abandonment of their " legitimate serve " the recreants." it is remarkable fife, Macdonald, the soldier of Stuart, dres ses R iei English fashion of last century, and that `r oc „d' the soldier of Cumberland, most retie,lo s ~ t he, Beres to the co-tome of a Highland hied ° ' s pl 17th century.—They are each about 1 00 Y e'r b,d age, and are very fine specitnens he o e t features and athletic forms of the Highl ands the days of other years. Sinel,ir especially, with his decorated - ne st and ample plaid, seated at the door of bis loft and hospitable mansion, quaffing the la ° per' is an object of peculiar interest to eyes son who visits the beautiful village of tl ' e the ta Rivers ; and when they depart this We' a 4O will be a blank in its society that no add io°- fill to equal advantage. Prince , oof iF EXCESSIVE BRUTALITY.—On 11 0 ;1 0 last, a quarrel arose between an elderly o h° named James Collins, and his son-in• 4l , %e : f ali° reside near Lambeth Church ; from big a n trolf they proceeded to blows, and during the son-in-law, Joseph Wood, bit a pie" ° w hic li out of the cheek of his father-in -la ir ' to th e dreadfully disfigured his face, and put bit ° 1 0 0 most horrible pain. Yesterday a WO tali issued to apprehend the offender. „,r COURSE OF EXCHANGE, TULSPAY, C` ' 3 . 7 „ Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight 1t I ' 2 Afloat' dam Ditto, Sight. Rotterdam Antwerp 3 sllanihiirgh Rhone.... ~ Park, 3 Day's sight 25 10 4 1. 1 ) Ditto ,25 14 flourdeaux, ditto Fiatdsloi ton the Main ' Madrid C:atiii Billnia Sevillt: ....... 71 Giltraltar 37i Barcelona Leghorn Genoa... ... ........... _ ilti •—Venice, Ital. Liv. ,'i Malta... 4qt OP —5O —Naples.... ••• • • • ' " I. Palermo Oporto.. Lisbon Janeiro ro 6748 Dublin... . ..... 10..... Cork, __to per Cent. Agin of the Bank on Holland.... q per Cent. r f* BULLION. 0 ° Pe Portugal Gold, in Coin ............... ... 4 1,0 0 0 New Doübloons .----_ _ - - ----------.-- imommmonammimmomiNlM. ----------.0e......... P.• o BIRTHS. ( - 4 at G e°44 On the Bth inst. at the house of her father, i"—re Colonel street, the Lady of J. Warner, Esq • of a daughter- _ On the sth inst. at Guernsey, the LadY of L ieu • Kennedy, of a son. Se I%IARRIED. ,„ rf Tll ol° llo ,l On the 4th April, 1818, by the Rev- 4 ,... 1; ;, th , 4 1 James Henry Johnston, Lieut. R. N. t° r ,',".., " o,', daughter of T. H. Harrington, Esq • o f ca l c oi..- 0f the 1 jo . On the 31st ult. at Dover, Lieut. E. T. l,i'',. e l A te 1 ‘ ___,../ Welch Fusiliers, to Eliza, only' daughter of t ' • Jesse Wright, of the Royal Artillery. to" DIED. robe ile3 Essex On the 3d inst. at his seat , B edfoids, , ' fsq' Esq. in the gOth year of his age. , - c jjags ter ' On Monday last, in his 77th Year , Ja ine- r ceo• s P r if formerly of Piccadilly, but lately of Tortihal-,g siN d ° t ) u st ° On the e2Gth ult. on his passage trout Jawrj„ Cr Oi . 40 vious to his arrival in England, Lieut. J. ' o f '. t soli 00 0 the Royal Marines, aged 30. On IVednesday last, aged 23, Thomas. e,4l:(ls.bee3l);:tiP,°,:: Thomas Salter, of the Ourbaui Bank. Il e ." h i s coal he '' i f from tinder Sunderland Pier with some 0t the pier:o o e , and when in the act of returning tow , ~,fo111 : 001 . 0 carried away by a back sweep of the sea, Slot, ,Vl:eij,s,:i drowned. Though picked up by a sitiP 5 f s erY 1 . , 1 e t te 0. minutes, the vital spark was quite extitict.ot we l eF t t oi l ois restore animation were promptly trie d, b f t i l e trnli W il without effect. He was a young.laane°34turde:>, i l o is n i g ios a i n ti d oriand character, and his pr ______<:,, sincerely regretted. __•----- ci tf . P /s;o. ' %1'..4. -----------,,,z of , by • LONDON: Printed by J. B. CARSTAlD"l'oislie' TO d t i , ' Ormond-street, Qu,,,,,quare; and PL, eet , Sr, SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Multorystitisetitea" Office, No. 112, Strand ; where A,velogd. lattero, &c, (post- paid) m ist be wicri i